Matthew Smith, PhD, MPH, CHES – Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP) in the Workplace- January 16, 2019
January 16, 2019
Speaker Bio: 
Recognizing health status is influenced by a vast and interconnected set of determinants, Dr. Matthew Lee Smith has devoted his career to create synergistic partnerships and initiatives to encourage positive lifestyles and reduce rates of preventable morbidity and mortality. As an evaluator and survey methodologist, he has initiated many projects to better understand risky health behavior and develop scalable interventions to evoke behavior modification. Dr. Smith’s involvement in local, state, and national evaluation initiatives have been integral to foster understanding about the reach, adoption, implementation, effectiveness, and maintenance of different evidence-based programs. His ability to form interdisciplinary collaborations affords him opportunities to apply his translational research and evaluation experience to bridge research and practice issues among the healthcare sector, aging services network, and public health system. Dr. Smith’s research efforts have been funded by organizations including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Administration on Aging (AoA), National Council on Aging (NCOA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). He has (co-) authored over 240 peer-reviewed publications in scholarly journals, received over 20 research-based awards, and delivered over 400 conference presentations and invited lectures. Dr. Smith is the Co-Director of the Texas A&M Center for Population Health and Aging and holds faculty positions in the Texas A&M School of Public Health and University of Georgia College of Public Health.
Supplemental Material:
- Article providing an overview of the CDSME national dissemination
- Article providing the proof of concept and justification for the wCDSMP translation
- Article reporting findings from the randomized controlled trial of wCDSMP
- Flyer used to promote the intervention locally in Texas (PDF)
- Presentation Slides (PDF)
- wCDSMP Logo (Live Healthy, Work Healthy)
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